In DFW Texdot is on record with every new road will be a NTTA toll road as Texdot.doesn’t have half the funding it needs to build new roads let alone upkeep the ones it.has. Texdot is selling the middle lanes of the interstates to be converted “managed lanes” with tolls as well this is due to again lack of.funding to build new lanes so they sell ROW and the.toll company.builds the new lanes then collects user fees to pay off the debt and do the O&M this is the other choice of a per mile.tax is not put in. The fact is the Federal government collects one fourth what it needs via gas taxes and Texas gets less than half it needs from gas taxes and those shares are dropping every year due to fuel.economy increases and electric vehicles paying no gas taxes the system is broken and will have to be replaced with one of the above choices. Income taxes, vignettes, tolls or property taxes and or huge per vehicle registration fees. Those are the available income streams one of those must fund the infrastructure. What most people here seem.to want is all the urbanites to pay income tax and property taxes to.find the roads they want to use more.than the average urbanite. Texas is diverting property taxes to.road funding and currently the fedgov is using income taxes from the general fund plus printing debt to.cover the hwy systems. That should be stopped and an equitable system of use more pay more be put in. Don’t want to pay then don’t drive so much it’s fairly.simple. Direct use taxes are always the most equitable and also the easiest to adjust ones behavior to minimise expose to them.
Ummm. Not sure whose side you are advocating for??
Reminds me of the Department of Energy during the Carter Admin which was instituted on 08/04/1977 to lessen our independence on foreign oil.
And where are we today?
Screw your thoughts on pay per mile.
MFO
As a follow up… From your diatribes, I would bet you are a CA expat who just happens to be a lawyer now in TX? If so, please move back. Do us all a favor.
MFO